In other words, the main finding of this paper, the one reported everywhere, is NOT that dogs reduce your risk of schizophrenia, it's that schizophrenia reduces your risk of dogs!pic.twitter.com/F3Bd14tNLP
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The fact that the analyses were the wrong way around, the exposure was a bit meaningless, and that the stats were probably misreported is probably enough And yet, the study was published, and got into the NYT *sigh*
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TL:DR - dogs don't prevent schizophrenia - schizophrenia may prevent dogs - even then, probably not - this study is a mess
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@statsepi and@ADAlthousePhD explain really well in this thread:https://twitter.com/statsepi/status/1220015078726098944?s=20 …Show this thread
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